A comparative ultrastructural and molecular biological study on Chlamydia psittaci infection in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and non-alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency emphysema versus lung tissue of patients with hamartochondroma

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Theegarten, Dirk ^a   Anhenn, Olaf ^a   Hotzel, Helmut ^b   Wagner, Mathias ^a   Marra, Alessandro ^c   Stamatis, Georgios ^c   Mogilevski, Grigori ^a   Sachse, Konrad ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Institute of Bacterial Zoonoses   (Germany)

^c RUHRLANDKLINIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BRONCHIOLITIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; CHONDROMA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORNITHOSIS; PATHOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SMOKING;

ALPHA 1-ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; BASE SEQUENCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSITTACOSIS; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SMOKING;

EID: 10444285213     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-4-38     Document Type: Article

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